Thomas Paget, Lord Paget
Thomas Catesby Paget or Pagett (1689 – 4 February 1742) was a British politician, styled Hon. Thomas Catesby Paget from 1712 to 1714, and subsequently with the courtesy title Lord Paget.
Life
Paget was born in 1689, the son of Hon. Henry Paget, later Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife Mary Catesby. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Clare College, Cambridge.[1] In the latter stages of the War of the Spanish Succession he was taken prisoner by French forces in southern Germany, as he tried to make his way to Italy.[2] In 1715, he was elected Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, where his family was influential, as a Tory.
Lord Paget continued to sit for Staffordshire until 1727. He was appointed Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales in 1719, serving him through his accession as King George II in 1727 until 1736.
Paget died at West Drayton on 4 February 1742 (N.S.), and was buried on 19 February in Westminster Abbey.
Works
Paget composed pieces in verse and prose; his verse has been described as exhibiting a "tough cynicism".[3] They included:[4]
- An Essay on Human Life, London (1734); a close imitation of Alexander Pope. It was printed in a supplement to the Works of Pope in 1757.
- An Epistle to Mr. Pope, in Anti-heroics, London, 1737.
- Some Reflections upon the Administration of Government (anon.), London, 1740.
His writings were collected in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse(1741).[4]
Family
Lord Paget (as he was styled from 1714) married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater on 6 May 1718, in Gray's Inn Chapel. They had two sons:
- Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (1719–1769)
- Hon. George Paget (1720–1737), died at Colchester.
References
Notes
- ↑ "Paget, Thomas (PGT705T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ historyofparliamentonline.org, Paget, Hon. Henry (1663-1743), of Beaudesert, Staffs.; West Drayton, Mdx.; and Jermyn Street, London.
- ↑ Eric Rothstein (1981). Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1660-1780. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-7100-0660-8. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
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"Paget, Henry (d.1743)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Paget, Henry (d.1743)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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| Preceded by Ralph Sneyd Henry Vernon |
Member of Parliament for Staffordshire 1715–1727 With: William Ward 1715–1720 William Leveson-Gower 1720–1727 |
Succeeded by William Leveson-Gower Sir Walter Bagot |